FM Nicholas Chan won the event to achieve his third consecutive win in this Tournament. It was a hard fought competition where the winners could only be determined until the last Round. Nicholas too pipped Ian Udani who shared the same score of 7 1/2 points through a tie-break.

The Tournament continued into Round 5 with two of Malaysia's leading players FM Nicholas Chan and IM Jimmy Liew competing for the top spot. The latter emerged the winner of this Round to earn the full 5 points.

With four more rounds to go these players are ready to also claim the top spots.

These are the seasoned campaigners as well as budding youngsters all ready to claim top honours in the Malaysian chess scene

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The women too were no pushover creating several upsets.

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It is great to see many youngsters participating in this longest running chess event in the country alongside their senior counterparts

Thursday, April 28, 2011

The 38th Selangor Chess Open Tournament 2011 (38th Selangor Open) kicked off this evening with 81 participants. As reported earlier leading the charge are the two International Master namely our very own IM Jimmy Liew and from Chennai India IM Srinath Narayanan. Strong contenders include tournament's highest FIDE-rated player FM Nicholas Chan and local based phillipino player Ian Udani as well as youngsters Lim Zhuo Ren and Sumanth Subramaniam.

Monday, April 25, 2011

As at this evening, the event has attracted 98 players who have completed the pre-registration process. Payment shall be made on the tournament day, 28th April before 5.30pm at the venue, DATCC, 4th floor, Wilayah Complex, KL. For those who yet to register, you may do so by sending an email to selangorchess@gmail.com by today midnight without incurring any penalty.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

This FIDE-rated event (also a nationally rated event) will be organised from 28th Apr to 2nd May 2011 at DATCC, 4th floor, Wilayah Complex, KL. The total prize fund for this event is RM 7,500 with the 38th Selangor Open Champion to receive RM 2,500 in cash.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Tournament in honour of journalist-chess columnist
Kuala Lumpur: In recognition of his vast contributions to Malaysian chess, the Lim Chong Memorial Chess
Championship 2011 will be held next month on Sunday, 27 March. An avid chess player, the late Lim Chong
was a noted columnist with his weekly Chessmate articles in The Malay Mail for more than a decade beginning
1983 and more recently with his online Chess Overboard writings for the Dato’ Arthur Tan Chess Centre
(DATCC) Blog. He was also a Council Member of the Selangor Chess Association.
“Lim Chong shared his passion for the game with so many of us by diligently writing about goings-on in the
chess fraternity. His was one of the local chess columns that gave enthusiasts regular updates on the home
scene,” said Abd Hamid Majid, organising chairman of the tournament to be held at the DATCC in Wilayah
Kompleks here.
“Even when he was promoted to senior general manager of IT publications of the New Straits Times Group, he
made it a point to attend or play in tournaments and to lend his support to various chess organisations,”
added Abd Hamid, who is also a member of the Malaysian Chess Federation.
Lim, 56, who joined the Bernama economic news service as a sub-editor in 2004 after opting for early
retirement from IT Publications, succumbed to a heart attack on November 26 on a flight back to Malaysia
from London where he had been sent on assignment.
The holding of a tournament to honour Lim was mooted by Dato’ Tan Chin Nam, Honorary Life President of
the Malaysian Chess Federation who noted that Lim steadfastly managed to write about chess at a time when
“space in newspapers was so precious”.
“The late (Tan Sri) Dr Noordin Sopiee, then the group editor of the NST, once even told me when I approached
him for a chess announcement, that even if one-square inch of space was given, the politicians – 168 members
of Parliament then – would start clamouring for (the whole chess board of) 64-square inches of publicity.”
In view of Lim’s invaluable contributions to the chess fraternity, Dato’ Tan has offered to donate and match
‘ringgit for ringgit’ by friends and members of the public towards the organisation of the tournament. “No
amount is too big or too little in support of this tribute to a respected journalist,” he added.
Lim’s wife Jan Tan Hong See, who is also assisting in organising the tournament, said his family members were
touched by the efforts of the chess fraternity as well as others in honouring her husband. Lim incidentally was
aware that he was to receive the Darjah Kebesaran Ahli Mahkota Selangor (AMS) in conjunction with Sultan
Sharafuddin Idris Shah’s 65th birthday on Dec 11. The posthumous award was accepted on Lim’s behalf by his
son, Yue Seng, 22.
More than 100 participants are expected at the Lim Chong Memorial Chess Championship 2011 to be held in
conjunction with Lim’s birthday on March 27 at the Dato’ Arthur Tan Chess Centre in Wilayah Kompleks, Jalan
Munshi Abdullah, Kuala Lumpur.
Entry forms and further details can be obtained by contacting the Dato’ Arthur Tan Chess Centre – Abd Hamid
(Tel: 019 3158098 or email:aham@pc.jaring.my) or Najib Wahab (Tel: 016 3382542). Entry Forms can also be
downloaded from http://datcchess.blogspot.com/